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“Judge, 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.” For No Longer A Child of Promise​There are a number of messages contained in this memoir as the author shares her experiences when she leaves the family farm against her parents’ wishes. Her journey into independence is full of entanglements with parents and siblings, co-workers and friends. She finds herself disinherited by her father yet she frequently misses him and even nurses him in his final years. As a hospital nurse, the author also is in the role of nurturing on many levels. The memoir uses a wide variety of “voices” to chronicle her life after the family and farm – letters, emails, legal documents, quotes, phone messages, poems, prayers, wills, songs and much more. These variations in narrative provide the reader with refreshing breaks from a single voice. And since the author tells her story in first person present tense, these other “voices” provide a more traditional narrative contrast. There are good anecdotes, rich in dialogue, that help build character and depth. The fammily involvement extends in many unexpected directions, including fraud and embezzlement. The issue of trust, however, underlies all of the memoir.